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Inns en Route Inc. is a registered and licensed travel agency, and as such, meets all required standards for insurance and service. It is our policy to not release any client information to 3rd parties other than the hotels at which you are staying. We also use industry standard encryption for submission of information to our site. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us. When a client contacts us about hotel reservations, we need certain data to respond to the enquiry and to make the reservation. This information is given to the hotel where the reservation is also recorded. We collect, use and disclose this data only to the extent necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and as required or permitted by law.
We will email you a confirmation with dates, price, type of room, hotel’s address, phone number and map details to help with driving. You won't need anything else. Because we are an online service, we try to avoid paper. Just print off the confirmation and map and you are ready to go.
When you make your reservation enquiry, include your credit card details (or fax them to us) and we will make the booking for you immediately, if there is availability. This saves a lot of time.
Again, we try for 12-24 hour turnaround, but on occasion it will take longer. We will keep in touch with you and send you updates. Do not make travel plans until you receive a confirmation of reservation email from us. On occasion a hotel fills up between the time we receive your reservation request and the time the hotel processes it. Don’t forget that our clients are from around the world and we are all on different time zones, which may delay the process.
We will advise you of availability, price and the process for making the reservation (which will always involve sending us a credit card guarantee). It will give a link to our encrypted, secure, system. If you prefer to send us the information by fax, please send to (from Europe) 001 604 648 9356 . From North America fax to 1 604 648 9356.
Most of our inns have restaurants or dining rooms, and this is indicted for each place on the site.
We always send you a sketch of a map plus the address and phone number of the hotel. If you click on Maps and Routes (on the left side of our website) you can access a dynamic map from which you can ascertain directions, approximate distances, driving times, etc. However, we also highly recommend that you get the Michelin Motoring Guide which has far more detail than a regular map, including distances between cities and a comprehensive listing of small towns. The Michelin Guide is usually up to date and accurate.
Yes, many of the hotels on our site have appropriate facilities for weddings and meetings and we can organize this for you, or put you in touch with the appropriate person at the hotel.
You pay the hotel direct upon departure. If you have paid a deposit to the hotel when you initially made the reservation, this will be reflected on your bill from the hotel.
There are no fees for making a reservation through us. The prices on our website are the same as those on the hotels' tariff boards.
Some of our hotels require a deposit in high season (the amount varies). Some hotels require full pre-payment. All these details can be seen on the hotel page for each hotel. Often, the deposit is not refundable if you cancel your reservation outside of the cancellation period. All of the information on each hotel’s policy, is on that hotel’s page on our site. Please read it carefully. The hotel may require you to fax an approval form to them in order to take this deposit, but we will always let you know if this is the case.
Every hotel has their own cancellation policy which is shown on each hotel's page. It may be 7 days, 30 days or 48 hours. If you cancel outside of the hotel's cancellation period you will be charged one night's stay per room booked, generally. This is not always the case, so please make sure you are aware of the cancellation policy for the hotel you are reserving. As long as you are canceling within the cancellation period, just email us and we will contact the hotel to cancel your reservation. You will get an email from us confirming your cancellation. If you are canceling outside of the cancellation period, you need to telephone the hotel direct (you will have the number on your confirmation.). Cancellations and changes are subject to a nominal charge of 15 Euros per room booked, per hotel, by Inns en Route Inc. (see the 'Charges' section below).
We represent a diverse group of small, independently owned inns many of which are in undeveloped countryside regions. Some inns do not have a computer, most do not have a website and many continue to handle reservations manually. The raison d’etre of our websites is to showcase a large number of these small charming inns, simplify the process of making an enquiry and/or a reservation, and send all the relevant information to the client, usually within 24 hours.
Ours is a paperless service--everything you should need is on our website. We give full descriptive information, photographs, map, prices, location. We have clients from around the world and everyone can look at the same website information and make an enquiry and reservation online. The second reason is that our inns, for the most part, are very small and the owners need to know who is coming to stay with them and when. They do not want people just dropping in hoping to stay the night--they want advance warning of the arrival of guests.
Government standard ratings for hotels are based on amenities and service and certainly not charm. For example, a five star hotel may have a swimming pool, restaurant, bar, parking, conference facilities, 24 hour room service - and zero charm. We have visited the small hotels and inns on our site and we know that a humble 2 flower-rated inn will have charm, warmth, a hospitable host, personal service, a modern bathroom and a comfortable bed. Do ask us if you have any questions.
Inns en Route Inc. (for Inns of France, Spain and Portugal) is a registered and licensed travel agency, and as such, meets all required standards for insurance and service. It is our policy to not release any client information to 3rd parties other than the hotels at which you are staying. We also use industry standard encryption for submission of information to our site. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us.
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